5/ And on the Strait of Hormuz, they had NO PLAN. I can't go into more detail about how Iran gums up the Strait, but suffice it say, right now, they don't know how to get it safely back open.

Which is unforgiveable, because this part of the disaster was 100% foreseeable.

1800’s 🇺🇸Building code…

Made a guess that 2-stairs was needed for fire exits, to save lives.

But 2020’s 🇺🇸building code has sprinkler systems that
✔️do save lives; &
2-stairs didn’t actually save us.

Architect
Michael Eliason, AIA
has a book on building designs ok in 🇨🇦 ‘ 🇪🇺
“Building for People”

What if multi-unit apartments have…

1 stair? 🟥+🛗

Wasted space for 🚫🟨🟥not-needed hallway & 2nd stair=
an extra unit 🟦for rent💰$

Design allows 4 square-ish apartments + a courtyard
Thus🪟🪟🪟for daylight & vent

🆚

🟥🟥2 stairs?
Design is
A long 🟥🟨🟨🟨🟨🟥hallway
& narrow 1-🪟 🟦Apartments
On both sides

Considering housing shortage, some advocates propose requiring fewer staircases Some advocates say changing building requirements could help fix the state's housing shortage.

Some Minnesota state lawmakers and advocates say changing building requirements could help fix the state's housing shortage.

Star Tribune reporter Greta Kaul spoke to guest host Emily Reese on All Things Considered about the initiative.

🧵 An unusual procedural moment at the UN this week.

At the Commission on the Status of Women (CSW70), the Agreed Conclusions were adopted on the OPENING day — and BY VOTE rather than consensus.

That almost never happens.

Who caused it? ⬇️

“best time to include #efficiency
is during 🏠construction
when improvements are
✔️far cheaper than retrofits.”

Related: MN #Climate emissions 2005-23 chart
Statutory Goals
120MMt CO2e in 2025 must ⬇️cut to
100MMt🎯by 2030

Residential🤮CO2e is ⬆️
↑ 22%
Largest sources:
• Natural gas
• Oil

When workers stand together, they win. That’s what the Minnesota AFL-CIO is all about.

Proud to have their endorsement and to be in the fight for fair pay, safe jobs, and the freedom to organize.

@liberaljane.bsky.social

Digital illustration of a brown woman wearing a hijab. She has colorful eye makeup, a floral print tunic, and matching floral hijab. Her hand is raised in front of her chin and a magical glow showers down with the text, ‘you are worthy of love and belonging.’

⭐️💌💞 art by @liberaljane.bsky.social!

The goal is to overwhelm and distract us, but we won't forget!

Digital illustration of a fem with blonde hair sitting cross-legged on the ground. She's holding a sign that reads, 'war crimes won't hide sex crimes.'

From @liberaljane.bsky.social

Empowering artwork by Liberal Jane that shows a woman wearing an orange hooded jacket with the sentence “if your voice held no power, they wouldn’t try so hard to silence you” with an orange, starry background

Happy International Women’s Day! A day that feels more relevant and just as important as ever. All women deserve a voice and to be listened to, especially with recent events around the world. Every voice matters as should every woman. (Art by @liberaljane.bsky.social 💖)

@liberaljane.bsky.social

Trump is rolling snake eyes with his UNconstitutional Iran bombing. The Middle East is not the MAGApublican Congress willing to bend over when he demands it. Is the Iranian regime bad? YES. What changed the hopeful diplomacy? What next? @cartoonmovement.com #iran @cartooningforpeace.bsky.social

The BIG DUMB WAR CYCLE HAWKS ITCH FOR BATTLE IT WILL BE A SPLENDID LITTLE WAR! 9/11 FALSELY INVOKED I'M SURE THEY HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE HIJACKERS. BOOSTERS OF PREVIOUS WAR ALL OVER TV BOMBS AWAY! MILLIONS PROTEST AROUND THE WORLD AND ARE IGNORED THIS WAR IS BUNK TOO PATRIOTISM OF OPPOSITION QUESTIONED SUPPORT OUR TROOPS YOU TRAITOR WAR A BLOODY DISASTER WITHOUT END WHO COULD HAVE KNOWN? CONVENTIONAL WISDOM FORMS THAT WAR WAS A MISTAKE, BUT NO ONE HELD ACCOUNTABLE HOW'D WE GET INTO THAT MESS? BEATS ME!

This week's comic: The Big Dumb War Cycle

Small ceramic sculpture of a white figure sitting cross legged with a daffodil for a head against a white background

Carolyn Clayton, UK Ceramic artist known for her figurative sculptures #womensart #Spring #FridayFeeling

Painting of a young white girl, upper half, with her back to the viewer, standing by a window in an interior, there are bottles on the windowsill with flowering twigs in them

'Spring at the Window' by Tetyana Yablonska (1917-2006), Ukrainian painter #WomensArt

Textile banners with tbe text 'Girls say no to the bombs' with images of dives and peace and womens symbols

Banner by UK peace activist Thalia Campbell, a founder of the Greenham Common Women's Peace Camp in 1981. She produced over 250 textile banners in activism for disarmament of nuclear weapons #WomensArt #WomensHistoryMonth

Glass pane with inserts of different coloured and patterned circular glass pieces

US artist Nikki Root recycles vintage and modern bottles and glassware to create stained glass windows #WomensArt

Four images featuring a work of art in wire and small pieces of colourful glass

“Unwoven Light” by Korean artist Soo Sunny Park, sculptural installations using glass, wire and light #WomensArt

Monochrome photograph featuring a group of women in saris each individually hugging a tree in a forest.

Chipko movement ("to hug" in Hindi) non-violent women-led, forest conservation movement, 1970s, of India (Uttarakhand). Participants hugged trees to prevent loggers from cutting them down, successfully preventing massive deforestation. Where "tree huggers' originated #WomensHistoryMonth

That ring rack looks pretty cool, and apparently it was a really simple, cost-effective solution to the bicycle parking situation in Montreal

Illustration featuring several cycle racers wearing red shirts and one, sitting upright, wearing a pink shirt and looking at a butterfly.

🎨Riccardo Guasco

Photo of a woman riding a Dutch bicycle in what appears to be a protected bike lane.

Actress Sharon Stone riding in Amsterdam, 2016

Happy #BicycleBirthday, Sharon!
Born March 10, 1958

The "Cycling Through Water" trail in Belgium, 🇧🇪 designated by Time magazine as one of the world's most astonishing places, is a 212-meter trail that crosses a lake at water level…

The Greatest Feeling in the World Seven months with an electric bike.

“When I got home, I sat on the floor, wearing my helmet, and sobbed until I was hoarse with the overwhelm of my joy. I’d just ridden a bike for an hour! A bike! For an hour!”

The “greatest feeling in the world” after Long COVID. E-bikes and accessibility, via @heatherhogan.bsky.social. #UrbanTruth

Collier's magazine cover dated January 15, 1938 featuring a green tropical background with a black and white photo of a woman (front) and a man on a tandem bicycle superimposed on it. In the bottom right is the artist's signature: Alan Foster.

Collier's magazine
January 15, 1938

🎨Alan Foster

cheaper to build #Housing

Than pay for prisons
& ER visits

🇺🇸 #Mnleg 🔵proposes $10M
For supportive housing
To cover 🔴GOP federal cuts

www.house.mn.gov/SessionDaily...

Re: Federal housing cuts
Rep Howard sponsors HF3425

redirect state $ for gaps in
supportive housing rents-
addiction⛑️♿️health